LaRose mailed me a request for absentee ballot last week. I didn’t request one. The ONLY time EVER that I requested an absentee ballot was when I was in Denmark because my SIL was dying of cancer and I wasn’t sure I would be back in time for the election. Turns out, if you got an absentee ballot, but didn’t use it, you could only vote with a provisional ballot. Now, I’m thinking I’m likely to show up at the polls and once again, be denied a ballot because of some records error that LaRose forced.
I’m so pissed off at all these voting shenanigans! I want to see that man hauled off to prison for election interference. He is a domestic enemy of Ohio as is all if his bosses up the chain, including our governor. I’m tired of this bullshit. I’m pissed off the only tool I seem to have is one vote.
I think he’s just trying to sow confusion at any and every point he can. I also got a letter from the BOE saying there is a registered voter at my address that has not voted in the past four elections. But I’m the only voter at my house and I’ve voted at every single election, on year, off year, special and primaries since I moved here in 1991. So now I have TWO pieces of official mail designed to confuse.
Funny how Frank dropped his little nugget on August 31 a Saturday in the middle of labor day weekend! Was he hoping nobody would notice it? Drag him! 🤬🤬
Heather Cox Richardson's Letter from an American today showed exactly how LaRose and cronies are directly connected right up the chain with the mechanizations with the top of the ballot. Fine to be snarling at LaRose, but let's understand that we have to get Harris/Walz elected and protected above all or our Ohio officials will be the least of our worries.
As long as you don't request and get that absentee ballot you can vote in person. I too received that request, but I plan to early vote in person so I am NOT filling it out/NOT mailing it in. I WILL vote in person.
how did the Secretary of State "overturn" the statute? Did the legislature change it?
I can't understand the obsession with drop boxes. Who CARES how many of your family and friends and elderly neighbors' votes one carts to the box. Each ballot, at least here, as a number unique to the voter AND the election, and once it is counted, no more with that number will be. About the best thing you can do to mess things up is drop in doggy diarrhea or a lighted match. But then there are those security cameras..... The important thing is that each individual who fills out a ballot SIGNS it.
As I have oft said: my drivers license photo is almost 10 years old and looks nothing like me. My signature looks exactly the same as it did when I was in my 20s, close to 60 years ago, and writing checks to pay bills. How do I know? I still HAVE some of the checks.
The drop boxes are emptied each day by folks in an armored car and inventoried on site. Can you say that about your random mailbox down on the corner, if such still exists?
And here, the ballots that you mail are postpaid. Is there also a rule about who can cart a ballot to a mailbox? Even if everyone involved as to pay whatever a first class stamp will cost by election day? And what (other than the fact that multiple votes won't count) prevents a fraudster from sticking on stamps?
Obviously this is just obstruction of convenient exercise of the right to vote.
LaRose mailed me a request for absentee ballot last week. I didn’t request one. The ONLY time EVER that I requested an absentee ballot was when I was in Denmark because my SIL was dying of cancer and I wasn’t sure I would be back in time for the election. Turns out, if you got an absentee ballot, but didn’t use it, you could only vote with a provisional ballot. Now, I’m thinking I’m likely to show up at the polls and once again, be denied a ballot because of some records error that LaRose forced.
I’m so pissed off at all these voting shenanigans! I want to see that man hauled off to prison for election interference. He is a domestic enemy of Ohio as is all if his bosses up the chain, including our governor. I’m tired of this bullshit. I’m pissed off the only tool I seem to have is one vote.
I was wondering about that as it’s the first time I remember receiving a letter of that type.
I think he’s just trying to sow confusion at any and every point he can. I also got a letter from the BOE saying there is a registered voter at my address that has not voted in the past four elections. But I’m the only voter at my house and I’ve voted at every single election, on year, off year, special and primaries since I moved here in 1991. So now I have TWO pieces of official mail designed to confuse.
It would be one thing if this was politically mail (not encouraged), but this is official business. Disturbing.
This shows we need much deeper structural reforms. One person shouldn’t wield this much power.
They’re bullies. The only way to fight bullies is to stand up to them. Be strong, Blue Ohio!
Funny how Frank dropped his little nugget on August 31 a Saturday in the middle of labor day weekend! Was he hoping nobody would notice it? Drag him! 🤬🤬
That scum must go and his scummy friends just as soon as we can crowbar them out of office.
How can LaRose get away with violating State Law?
Heather Cox Richardson's Letter from an American today showed exactly how LaRose and cronies are directly connected right up the chain with the mechanizations with the top of the ballot. Fine to be snarling at LaRose, but let's understand that we have to get Harris/Walz elected and protected above all or our Ohio officials will be the least of our worries.
Thanks, David. But please take care of yourself too!
As long as you don't request and get that absentee ballot you can vote in person. I too received that request, but I plan to early vote in person so I am NOT filling it out/NOT mailing it in. I WILL vote in person.
This is Voter Suppression. How can this be allowed?
how did the Secretary of State "overturn" the statute? Did the legislature change it?
I can't understand the obsession with drop boxes. Who CARES how many of your family and friends and elderly neighbors' votes one carts to the box. Each ballot, at least here, as a number unique to the voter AND the election, and once it is counted, no more with that number will be. About the best thing you can do to mess things up is drop in doggy diarrhea or a lighted match. But then there are those security cameras..... The important thing is that each individual who fills out a ballot SIGNS it.
As I have oft said: my drivers license photo is almost 10 years old and looks nothing like me. My signature looks exactly the same as it did when I was in my 20s, close to 60 years ago, and writing checks to pay bills. How do I know? I still HAVE some of the checks.
The drop boxes are emptied each day by folks in an armored car and inventoried on site. Can you say that about your random mailbox down on the corner, if such still exists?
And here, the ballots that you mail are postpaid. Is there also a rule about who can cart a ballot to a mailbox? Even if everyone involved as to pay whatever a first class stamp will cost by election day? And what (other than the fact that multiple votes won't count) prevents a fraudster from sticking on stamps?
Obviously this is just obstruction of convenient exercise of the right to vote.